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purple shore crab

Hemigrapsus nudus

Classification

Family
Varunidae

The purple shore crab (Hemigrapsus nudus or the naked shore crab) is a common crab of the family Varunidae that is indigenous to the west coast of United States, Canada, and Mexico. H. nudus was first described in 1847 by Adam White, and in 1851, James Dwight Dana formally classified the species.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 4,643Canada · 3,255